IMPORTANT FIND IN EGYPT
First Gold Coffin Since Tutankhamen (Received March 20, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 20. The Cairo correspondent of “The Times” says that Professor Montet, of Strasbourg University, has discovered near Tanis, in the Nile Delta Province, the first gold coffin since Tutankhamen’s. It contained the first silver coflin ever found in Egypt, in which was a mummy believed to be that of Kjng Psousennes, reputedly one of King Solomon’s fathers-in-law. Two bejewelled skeletons lay beside the sarcophagus, and a large vase, still unopened. Tanis was the Pharaonic capital of Egypt from 1700 to 1200 B.C. Professor Montet explored the empty funerary chambers of the Kings of the Twentyfirst and Twenty-second Dynasties, who governed the Delta from 1100 to 950 B.C.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 150, 21 March 1939, Page 9
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